Nippon (disambiguation)
Nippon (Hiragana: にっぽん) is a reading of kanji 日本 that refers to Japan. Nippon is more formal and rarer than Nihon (にほん), an alternative reading. For more information see Names of Japan.
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Nippon may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional locations
- Nippon (Warhammer), a location in the World of Warhammer, fantasy role-playing game
- Nippon Building, the Japanese government's US headquarters in San Francisco, in the TV series The Man in the High Castle (in the series, Japanese people are referred to as Pons, short for Nippons)
Music
- "Nippon" (song), a 2014 single by Ringo Sheena
- Nippon Soul, a live album by the jazz musician Cannonball Adderley
Periodicals
- Nippon Camera, a magazine
- Vogue Nippon, the name of the Japanese version of Vogue
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- All Night Nippon, a program on NBS
Companies
Manufacturing companies
- NEC, called the Nippon Electric Company before 1983
- Nikon (formerly Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha), a camera manufacturer
- Nippon Chemi-Con, an electronics component manufacturer
- Denso, an automotive components manufacturer (Former Nippon Denso)
- Nippon Kodo, a manufacturer of incense
- Nippon Paint, a paint manufacturer
- Nippon Paper Industries, a paper manufacturer
- Nippon Sharyo, a rolling stock manufacturer
- Nippon Sheet Glass
- Nippon Steel
- Noritake, a porcelain (fine china) maker (Former Nippon Toki Kaisha)
- Nissan Motors (formerly Nippon Sangyo)
Media companies
- Nippon Animation
- Nippon Broadcasting System
- Nippon Television
- Radio Nippon
Transportation companies
- Air Nippon
- All Nippon Airways
- Nishi-Nippon Railroad
- West Nippon Expressway Company, an operator of expressways and toll roads
Other industries
- Nippon Express, a logistics services company
- Nippon Ichi Software
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
- Nippon Life
Sports
- Formula Nippon, a type of formula racing
- Nippon Kempo, a martial art
- Nippon Professional Baseball, a professional baseball league in Japan
Other uses
- Nippon Budokan, an arena in central Tokyo
- "Nippon Clip-on", a nickname for the Japanese project to widen the Auckland Harbour Bridge
- Nippon Jamboree, a Scouting event
- Nipponosaurus a hadrosaur from Russia and japan
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